It was all great fun and was never allowed to be serious in the studious sense, F.M. saw to that. If we were looking solemn in class F.M. sent us out for a walk, “come back when you are smiling again!” We hastened to obey and took ourselves once round St. Vincent’s Square, naturally putting our heads forward and up to walk.
Erika Whittaker (“Alexander’s Way” – The Alexander Journal No. 13 Autumn 1993 p5)